CHAP. XIII. MANDOO AND MENDES NOT PAN. 33 



mode of representing these Divinities, that I do 

 not scruple to reject it as perfectly erroneous, fully 

 persuaded that the God Mendes never had that 

 form, either in the Mendesian nome, or in any 

 part of the country. That he bore no relation to 

 Khem, or Pan, I have already shown, and Mendes, 

 if he be the same as Mandoo, was totally distinct 

 from the God of Generation. 



Vain indeed would be the task of endeavouring 

 to reconcile the opinions of Greek writers with the 

 real characters of the Egyptian Deities, and it is 

 frequently preferable to reject them than to be in- 

 fluenced by their doubtful testimony. 



Mandoo was probably one of the deified attri- 

 butes of the Sun, which may have led to the re- 

 mark of Strabo, that Apollo was worshipped at 

 Hermonthis *, since Mandoo formed the leading 

 person of the triad of the place : he wore the globe 

 of Re, with the feathers of Amun, and was usually 

 represented with the head of a hawk, the emblem 

 of the Sun. He sometimes had the name of Re 

 added to his own, as in two of the hieroglyphic 

 legends in the accompanying Plate, which might 

 read Mandoo-Re, or *' Mandoo the Sun." This 

 may be adduced in confirmation of the opinion t, 

 that many Egyptian Gods were originally borrowed 

 from a Sabaean worship established in the country 

 at a remote period ; which, modified by speculative 

 theory, afterwards assumed a metaphysical charac- 



* Vide my Egypt and Thebes, p. 423. Champollion supposes the 

 name of that city to have been derived from the God Mandoo-Re, or 

 Month-Re ; whence Re-Month and Ermont. 



t Vide supra. Vol. I. (2d Series) p. 209. 242. 288, 

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